Torres Strait Notes

From Our Own Correspondent

Thursday Is.. Nov. 10.

THE Thursday Island town reservoir, which gives the local water, supply, became empty at uhe piiddle of October, Since then the reserve supplies in the oid reservoir and the military tanks been called upon, but they can only lasi a few days. Residents are awaiting the usual No/ember thunder storms.

Mr. D. S. A. Drain, District Inspector of the Queensland Department of Public Instruction, recently inspected all the Mission schools in Papua. He crossed over from Daru (Western Papua) in the Elevara to Thursday Island (Torres Strait) where he examined the three local schools, and he has now gone on to Darwin, Northern Territory.

Mr. F. P. May. who has been manager ot Aboriginal Industries, Badu Island, since June, 1930, has( resigned in order to take up a business in Sydney. Mr. George H. Clarke, lately secre tary of the Millaa Millaa Sawmilling Co., North Queensland, has been appointed in his place. Mr.

Clarke is well known on T. 1., having been for

many years manager of Models Limited. Mr. and Mrs. Clarke have already departed for ’Badu.

General regret has been expressed on T.I. at the passing of Mr. Tom Cussen, who was identi fied with the Torres Strait pearl shelling industry from its earliest days.

Miss Mol lie Broughton, of the local hospital staff, was recently married in Brisbane to Lt.- Commander R. W. Rankin, of H.M.A.S. Moresby.

They will proceed to England early next year upon Lt.-Commander Rankin’s transfer to the British Navy.

Mr. W. H. (“Tavua”) Johnson, of Suva,

accompanied by Mrs. Johnson, returned

to Fiji by the Mariposa on October 26 after a visit to the United States and Canada.

Mr. M. L. Woodyatt has been appointed manager of the Lautoka branch of the Bank of New South Wales, and arrived in the Colony by the Aorangi early in October.